[smokingfrog]

Might be a good idea to wait before installing version 3.5?

[Slapshot68]

I think they’re missing the point of why people liked FF in the first place. Less bloat, less security issues, shorter load times.

[Texas Fossil]

I have been using Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 for months and am very happy with it. Using it on an XP Pro box.

Much more stable than 3.0.

At this point some of the plug-ins are not yet compatible, but I love Firefox 3.5 beta.

TF

[Blennos]

Hmmm. I still have 3.0 but 3.5 is advertised as being “Twice as fast as Firefox 3.” Just to be safe, I think I will wait until the next bug fix to upgrade.

[freedumb2003]

>>Might be a good idea to wait before installing version 3.5? <<

I am.

But Firefox has been slowing down every release since 2. How they got into the MS bloatware pattern is anyone’s guess.

[mysterio]

So that’s why it is slow. I thought it was because of Itunes or something.

[MarineBrat]

I updated to 3.5 yesterday and have noticed no slowdown. All of my plugins but one are fine, and the one that wasn’t fine didn’t cause a problem because FireFox warned me when I was updating that it would have to disable one of my plugins.

WinXP Pro

[vaudine]

I am using 3.0.11 and it loads slowly, sometimes refuses to load, so I use Safari. What should I upgrade to and what do they mean by the Java remark. I am such a computer novice it is embarrassing.Vaudine

[Moonman62]

I upgraded and downgraded within an hour yesterday. All sorts of stalls and freezing, even in safe mode.

[Concho]

I installed the new 3.5 this week and it just hammered my speed. It is a hog of a program that injects unneeded crap on the basis that it is smarter and can think of what you need better than you can.

[edcoil]

I like foxit it is much faster then Adobe’s pdf reader.

[dila813]

Use Opera Unite

[kenth]

There’s one bug that I’ve seen with FF for quite a number of versions, including the most recent. It is the copy bug, wherein text sometimes is not able to be copied. Highlighted text will not be offered a copy function in the context menu. It just does not exist. Using the copy shortcut keys also does not work.

[ShadowAce]

[Billthedrill]

Upgraded to 3.5 last night. Noticeable difference in speed (I like) but I haven't used it long enough for any bugs to turn up. IE8 is an improvement over 7 but is rather annoying after it's installed - "Hi, I'm IE8! I want to waste minutes of your time telling you how great I am! Say, did you want that old home page back? Are you sure?" Irritating.

Chrome rocks on older boxes. I just upgraded an Opera installation on one of them and even that one is markedly improved. Good times for browsers if you don't mind a few rocks in the road.

[raybbr]

I have it on a Vista Home Pr. machine and have noticed nothing like this. In fact, it does seem faster.

[Still Thinking]

Might be a good idea to wait before installing version 3.5?

It must be configuration dependent. I have 3.5 and it loads and gets the home page in about a second.

[w1andsodidwe]

Every time I mention how long it takes Firefox to load, I have been told no one else has the problem. So now I now I am not crazy.

[Bigun]

I have FireFox 3.5, IE 8, and the latest version of Safari on my XP box and, for me, FireFox 3.5 is the winner by far.

It is noticeably faster and far more stable than previous versions.

[papasmurf]

I updated to 3.5 two days ago, all of my plugins work, and this browser blisters!